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This year [1930],...

This year [1930],...

This year [1930], when we all needed something to take our minds off our troubles, miniature golf did it . . . . If we...

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ABNORMAL, adj. Not...

ABNORMAL, adj. Not...

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to...

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No one has...

No one has...

No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.

Source: The Rest of the Story,...

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Cooking is like...

Cooking is like...

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Source:...

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Theatre director: a...

Theatre director: a...

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot...

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Genius is the...

Genius is the...

Genius is the talent of a man who is dead.

Source: In The Cynic's Lexicon, ed....

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A poet is...

A poet is...

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

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I don't think...

I don't think...

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Source: The...

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My greatest enemy...

My greatest enemy...

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

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What the American...

What the American...

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

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You canÆt change...

You canÆt change...

You canÆt change people but you can effect a change in them by your behaviour.

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All those writers...

All those writers...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...

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Lips that taste...

Lips that taste...

Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.


Source:...

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And there was...

And there was...

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...

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The blood of...

The blood of...

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

Source: Traditional...

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Whatever an author...

Whatever an author...

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put...

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As for the...

As for the...

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no...

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He longed to...

He longed to...

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

Source: On T. E....

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Editors may think...

Editors may think...

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often [they] operate a...

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It takes half...

It takes half...

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

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